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Sometimes, what is right for you at the beginning of your life is not the right thing for you at the end of your life.
You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.
Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.
Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.
You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.
People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.
I think what people understand there probably - well, they were hoping the private sector would do it [rescuing AIG ].
Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.
Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.
There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.
Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.
Don't depend on recent or current figures to forecast future prices; remember that many others knew them before you did
If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.
Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.
People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.
It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.
Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.
Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.
In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.
We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.
If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.
The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.
you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing
Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.
Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
I think there wouldn't be a Net neutrality debate in this country if we really had a competitive environment for access.
We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That's pretty telling.
Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt.
The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.
They were tough times and I started working when I was 10 years old, delivering papers and eventually becoming a waiter.
If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power.
Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.
You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.
We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.
A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well
The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world
Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.
My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.
I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.
Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.